curl https://zps.io/setup.sh -o ./setup.sh && chmod 700 setup.sh && ./setup.sh ${your_image_dir}

ZPS

ZPS is a modern binary package management solution designed to solve the delivery problems encountered by teams that execute rapidly as well as the compliance problems of those that rely on the software delivered.

Design

• No invention of custom serialization formats
• System state can be modeled as a set of packages
• A package system should support multiple roots (install roots)
• A package is composed of a set of actions
• The integrity of a system comprised of packages should be easily cryptographically validated and quickly repaired
• Versioning should be easy to automate
• Repositories should support channels for configurable upgrade work flows
• Repositories should be easily discoverable
• Repositories are multi-vendor from the start
• Repositories should support import work flows
• Packages may be automatically added to channels based on defined metadata queries

Platform and Architectures

• Architecture support will be limited to x86_64 (initially) and arm64 (eventually)
• OS support will be limited to OSX, Linux, FreeBSD (initially)
• Must support cross platform builds with variable interpolation

Principles

• Software build systems and software delivery are separate concerns, one must not adopt a build system to create a package
• Creating binary software packages should be easy
• Publishing binary software packages should be easy
• Design should support commercial software subscriptions thereby encouraging vendors to provide binary packages
• Vulgarities of technical implementation should not be exposed to the user
• Configuration management is a delivery vehicle for unfinished work (ZPS will handle configuration at install time)
• Design and functionality should not be crippled in order to support a zero value business model
• The Docker hype machine is the result of extended stagnation in the *NIX package management space

Prior Art, and Influences

• IPS
• APT/DPKG
• YUM/RPM
• npm
• pub
• libsolv

Current State

M1 has been recently completed. M1 is of functional prototype quality. Generally it should be fine for use, however breakage will occur and there are likely bugs.

See GH issues for milestone information.

// HCL Zpkgfile declaration

Zpkg "zps" {
  publisher = "zps.io"
  version = "${env.VERSION}"
  summary = "ZPS the last word in package management"
  description = "The Z package system, hopefully the last package manager you will ever use."
  os = "${env.OS}"
  arch = "x86_64"
}

Tag "zps.vcs.uri" {
  value = "https://github.com/zps-io/zps"
}

// HCL repository declaration

priority = 10
enabled = true

fetch {
  uri = "https://zps.io/packages/zps.io/core"
}

publish {
  name = "ZPS Core"
  prune = 3
  uri = "s3://zps.io/packages/zps.io/core"
}

ZPS (Z Package System) The last word in package management

Usage:
  zps [flags]
  zps [command]

Manage Current Image:
  cache       Manage metadata and file cache
  configure   Configure packages
  contents    List contents of installed package
  freeze      Freeze a package version
  info        Show installed package metadata
  install     Install packages
  list        List installed packages
  pki         Manage pki store
  plan        Plan transaction
  refresh     Refresh repository metadata
  remove      Remove packages
  repo        Manage repositories
  status      Show status of specified package
  thaw        Un-freeze package version
  transaction Manage transactions
  update      Update packages

Package Publishing/Fetching:
  channel     Add a package to a channel within a repository
  fetch       Fetch packages from configured repositories
  publish     Publish ZPKG(s) to a repository

Images and ZPKGs:
  image       Manage images
  zpkg        Manage ZPKG files

ZPS:
  help        Help about any command
  tpl         Process a template and write to standard out
  version     Show version

Flags:
  -h, --help           help for zps
      --image string   ZPS image name/id
      --no-color       Disable color

Use "zps [command] --help" for more information about a command.